Andrei Ivashkin had been short for a while and had got a double up a few hands earlier but was still shy of 50,000 when he got the last of it in and got a call from Eric Sfez.
Ivashkin had the best of it with against the of Sfez.
The flop of gave Ivashkin his pair but also a flush draw to Sfez. That’s not how he knocked Ivashkin out though as the turn and river gave Sfez trips and the rest of Ivashkin’s chips.
Anton Wigg had increased his short stack to 80,000 again and then got it in preflop after a raising war with Garret Gruener. The Swede needed to improve with his but was drawing dead on the turn against the of his opponent on a board of .
The flop was and a 5,000 bet from Emil Ekvardt saw David Vamplew move all in over the top and Ekvardt shrug call. The stacks were very close together with Ekvardt having slightly more.
Ekvardt had top pair and Vamplew was on the draw with .
The turn was the and the river delivered the flush for Vamplew to leave Ekvardt short and in the small blind next hand.
Ekvardt would get it in next hand with and couldn’t win against the of Thomas Butzhammer.
Quite a large pot had built until the turn and Tobias Peters then moved all in for more than 160,000 out of the blinds. Initial raiser Artem Metalidi gave it some thought and then mucked his cards.
Eric Sfez raised to 10,000 and reluctantly called the all in of Sylvain Loosli for 36,400 with . The Frenchman sighed when he spotted the of his opponent, but the board was kind to him and sent Loosli to the rail.
Joao Vieira three-bet shoved for 70,700 with and got called by initial raiser Tobias Peters from the cutoff with . It was all over by the turn of a board and the Portuguese headed to the rail.
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Nikolay Komcharokov was all in for 118,000 and at risk preflop with against the ace-king of Rui Ferreira. The Russian would improve on a board of and now Ferreira is on a short stack.
against the 
of Sfez.
gave Ivashkin his pair but also a flush draw to Sfez. That’s not how he knocked Ivashkin out though as the turn 
and river 
gave Sfez trips and the rest of Ivashkin’s chips.
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in the middle and Aido doubled through Nitsche.
but was drawing dead on the turn against the 
of his opponent on a board of 
and a 5,000 bet from Emil Ekvardt saw David Vamplew move all in over the top and Ekvardt shrug call. The stacks were very close together with Ekvardt having slightly more.
and Vamplew was on the draw with 
.
delivered the flush for Vamplew to leave Ekvardt short and in the small blind next hand.
and couldn’t win against the 
of Thomas Butzhammer.
and got called by initial raiser Tobias Peters from the cutoff with 
. It was all over by the turn of a 
and Andrei Ivashkin reshoved behind him with 